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"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.

English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Capitalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Colonies --- Commerce --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--

Historical fiction, English --- English literature --- Liberty in literature --- Commerce in literature --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- History and criticism --- Historical fiction, English. --- English literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1899

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Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Commercial products --- Consumption (Economics) --- English literature --- Marketing --- Material culture in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nostalgia in literature. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature --- Commerce in literature --- Material culture in literature --- Nostalgia in literature --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Commodities --- Economic goods --- Merchandise --- Products, Commercial --- Commodity exchanges --- Manufactures --- Substitute products --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Retail trade --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Selling --- Psychological aspects --- History and criticism --- Contracting out

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Economics in literature --- English fiction --- Commerce in literature --- Business in literature --- Businessmen in literature --- Capitalists and financiers in literature --- History and criticism --- -English literature --- Commerce in literature. --- Business in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Capitalists and financiers in literature. --- Businessmen in literature. --- Romans. --- Handel. --- Engels. --- Roman anglais --- Commerce --- Littérature anglaise --- English fiction. --- Fiction in English, 1837-1900. --- History and criticism. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Special subjects: Commerce - Critical studies --- 1800-1899. --- Special subjects: Commerce - Critical studies. --- -History and criticism --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Commerce dans la litterature --- 19e siecle --- Histoire et critique

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The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century's greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby places Milton's work-as well as the writings of contemporary reformers like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty-within the framework of England's economic history between 1601 and 1724. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton's prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost.

Economics and literature --- Economics in literature. --- History --- Commerce in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Economic aspects --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Knowledge --- Economics.